Forty years ago this Oct. 15, Houghton Mifflin published “The Painted Bird” by Jerzy Kosinski. The book was immediately acclaimed as a must-read text on the Holocaust and the nature of human cruelty.

If you think the black-and-white Czech film “The Painted Bird” will fulfill your monthly boring-art quota, just wait until the scene in which a nympho gets it on with a goat! Oh, the movie is ...

Much has been made of the extreme and unrelenting violence that penetrates almost every scene of Václav Marhoul’s 169-minute “The Painted Bird,” in the grand tradition of “Come and See,” “The Tin Drum ...

An extraordinary piece of filmmaking I hope never to see again, Václav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird” is a pulverizing movie experience from which one cannot look away. Adapted from Jerzy Kosiński’s ...

Václav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird” begins with utter bleakness but over the course of its 169-minute running time, keeps finding lower depths of misery. When it premiered last fall at the Venice Film ...

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IFC Films has picked up the U.S. rights to Czech director Vaclav Marhoul's 'The Painted Bird,' a movie adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's controversial novel about the Holocaust. By Etan Vlessing Canada ...

The Painted Bird will make you miserable. Watching it is akin to chugging back the black ooze that pumps through humanity’s dark heart, swallowing the vile and toxic swill hard, and asking for more, ...

Since it made its debut last year at the Venice Film Festival, Czech filmmaker Vàclav Marhoul’s adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s controversial 1965 World War II novel has been tagged as one of the more ...

Udo Kier is also lined up to star in the screen adaptation of Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski's controversial novel. By Nick Holdsworth Filming has begun on an adaptation of Polish novelist Jerzy ...

When The Painted Bird premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, it sparked a blaze of headlines. But not necessarily for the right reasons. "Audience members fight each other to escape first ...

Prague-born writer-director Vaclav Marhoul tosses his hat into the ring with the likes of Bergman, Tarkovsky and Fellini with the Czech Republic Academy Award selection “The Painted Bird,” a ...